Assistant Professor of Trombone Chris Buckholz has released his third solo CD, Versatility, a double album of classical and jazz. It includes a recording of Richard Peaslee’s Arrows of Time with the University of New Mexico Wind Symphony, jazz originals and standards, classical works for tenor and alto trombone, a new edition of Frederick Innes’s 1880 composition The Sea-Shells Waltz, and classical improvisations. Buckholz’s previous recordings include an album of jazz originals, Muse, and the 2010 classical album À la Albéniz on Albany Records.
The Cruelty of Jazz: Toward a Hemispheric Politics of Sound
Rooted in concepts of affect and Empire, this paper argues that jazz operated in various 20th century Latin American settings as a vital touchstone bearing the risks and benefits of urban modernization, hemispheric geopolitics, and transnational cultural production, “cruelly” echoing the United States’ cultural, political, and economic dominance in the hemisphere and beyond.
Music from the Americas presents Versus 8
Percussion music in the Americas is one of the most exotic, visually attractive, and antique forms of expression since pre-hispanic times. Preserving, promoting and creating music for the percussion family of instruments is at the core of Versus 8’s mission through international collaboration with composers, performers, students, and cultural centers that contribute with their resources to the cycle of music, namely: creation, performance, and listening..
A Day in the Life of the Bosavi People
A 90 minute, 4K, 7.1 surround sound eco-rockumentary concert of a day in the life of the Bosavi people and their rainforest home in Papua New Guinea, directed and produced by Steven Feld and based on recordings and images from 1976-2018.